ADAPTIVE BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION IN H.264/AVC BITSTREAMS BASED ON MACROBLOCK SIZES

Antoine Vacavant, Lionel Robinault, Serge Miguet, Chris Poppe, Rik van de Walle

2011

Abstract

In this article, we propose a novel approach to detect moving objects in H.264 compressed bitstreams. More precisely, we describe a multi-modal background subtraction technique that uses the size of macroblocks in order to label them as belonging to the background of the observed scene or not. Here, we integrate an adaptive Gaussian mixture-based scheme to model the background. We evaluate our contribution using the PETS video dataset and a realist synthetic video sequence rendered by a 3-D urban environment simulator. We compare two different background models, and we show that the Gaussian mixture-based is the best and outperforms other techniques that use macro bloc sizes.

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Vacavant A., Robinault L., Miguet S., Poppe C. and van de Walle R. (2011). ADAPTIVE BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION IN H.264/AVC BITSTREAMS BASED ON MACROBLOCK SIZES . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-47-8, pages 51-58. DOI: 10.5220/0003364000510058


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@conference{visapp11,
author={Antoine Vacavant and Lionel Robinault and Serge Miguet and Chris Poppe and Rik van de Walle},
title={ADAPTIVE BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION IN H.264/AVC BITSTREAMS BASED ON MACROBLOCK SIZES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={51-58},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003364000510058},
isbn={978-989-8425-47-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2011)
TI - ADAPTIVE BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION IN H.264/AVC BITSTREAMS BASED ON MACROBLOCK SIZES
SN - 978-989-8425-47-8
AU - Vacavant A.
AU - Robinault L.
AU - Miguet S.
AU - Poppe C.
AU - van de Walle R.
PY - 2011
SP - 51
EP - 58
DO - 10.5220/0003364000510058